Starting a Book in WordCrafter.pro, Start to First Draft Signing in, making somewhere to put it, the pen name, the genre, the idea, and the rooms between a spark and a manuscript. Part one of two — revision is next week. --- Last time I went spelunking in the series tools and came out slightly annoyed at how much of them I hadn't been using. This week I did the same thing to the front of the pipeline: the stretch between "I have an idea" and "I have a draft." Same result, different flavour. The tools aren't the problem. The problem is that nobody tells you what order to touch them in, so most people either skip the setup and pay for it in book three, or spend a week building scaffolding for a book they were never going to write. So this is the order I'd do it in, with the reasoning for each step rather than just the clicks. Some of it is five seconds of work that saves you a fortnight later. Some of it you can genuinely skip. One structural note before we start: the rail changed. Your plugin tools used to have seven separate icons in the left rail. They're now behind a single 🧩 puzzle piece. Click it and you get a list — each tool by name with a line explaining what it does, instead of seven glyphs you had to decode. The list shows more than you own, deliberately: tools your plan doesn't include appear dimmed with the tier that unlocks them, anything still being built shows as Soon, and anything you've switched off in Settings shows there too. So a tool never silently vanishes on you. That's the only place in the app that names every extra plugin tool in one view, which makes it a decent map when you're new. --- Step 0 — Get in, and make somewhere to put the book This is the step every walkthrough assumes you've already done, which is exactly why it's worth doing slowly once. Signing in Go to wordcrafter.pro and sign in. Three ways in, and they all land in the same place: - Email and password — the ordinary one. - Continue with Google — one click, no password to lose.

If anyone wants an epub version of the book comment here and I'll send it out tonight. I've had two requests so far. And just as an FYI. The final count through yesterday was 167 free sales, 3x full price sales, and 563 pages read through KU. So far total sales is $16 and change.

PEN NAMES, AND THE TWO WAYS TO GIVE THEM A VOICE What Settings, Pen Names actually controls, what "voice" means when AI drafts for you, what a pen name with no voice does, and what happens if you never set one at all. Pen names look like a small settings screen. They're not. A pen name is the one row in WordCrafter.Pro that decides who wrote a book — and, if you choose to give it one, how that author sounds when AI is doing the drafting. Today's training is about getting that right: what a pen name actually does, the two different ways to build it a voice, and — because this is the question that actually trips people up — exactly what happens when you skip it. WHAT A PEN NAME IS Before pen names existed, the only author identity in WordCrafter was a free-text string on a series. One field, no bio, no publisher, no links — and two books by "the same author" could spell the name two different ways with nothing stopping it. A pen name replaces that with a real row: name, bio, up to twelve genres (which become the actual BISAC subject codes Amazon and Ingram read on export), a promo/ad page, website and social links, and a publisher. You write all of that once, in Settings, Pen Names, and every book or series that picks that pen name gets it automatically. Edit the bio in one place and every export using that pen name updates. It's a picker, not a text box. Open a book's Metadata modal and the "Author / Pen Name" field is a dropdown of the pen names on your account — never a place to type a name by hand. Choose one and that book's exports — EPUB, DOCX, PDF, wherever the author name gets printed — pull the name, bio, publisher and subject codes from that row. The inheritance chain A book doesn't have to have its own pen name. Here's the order WordCrafter actually resolves an author in, top to bottom, first match wins: 1. The book's own pen name, if you set one. 2. The series' pen name, if the book didn't set its own but its series did.

My daily posts meander a bit but do have a long term goal and purpose. I'm writing multiple books here, one article at a time. and some of the tools I;ve been adding are to make some things easier. I want to cross post these to facebook and substack and get a wider reach. I currently do not have an easy way to do that. Its a form of marketing, so I'm doing extra work on markcrafter before releasing it as others may want the same features. ImageCrafter is doing some of the same heavy lifting for graphics and now animations and short movies. And now that I had the request for the Full AI, AI Reporting/ No Ai options I'm adding in some extra tools for folks that do not want or need to do everything here but want to take some of the pieces here directly to claude, chatgpt, local, gemini, etc.. A number of the outputs here can work elsewhere in other ways you may want. This is the REAL reason I've made import/export as robust as it is. Use the best tool for the job. So for instance you could take the author's voice output and add it to a claude skill for writing. I'll be doing some training for this in the upper tiers here soon. I'm still using claude skills for some things, cowork, code, affinity, canva. They're all tools. I'm thinking of WCP as a swiss army knife, but not all swiss army knives always have the blades you want or need. The whole point is to help folks write better, be more productive and make all of our lives more lucrative right? That being said, almost all my writing projects start in WCP lately.

The last two days I've been in and out of the editor room and writing room fixing things and trying to figure out how to create another arc of my protagonists to fit the genres I selected for the book. Whew. All emotional. Then it wasn't just the writing it was the figuring out where. Then the updating of the surrounding chapters and even adding chapters. I feel like I did a full powerlifting work out and competition and this morning I put it to the judges... the crew of the Editor Room.' All of it brought to mind if a question I have.... I've added, moved, and deleted chapters, then added some more. Is there an easy way to change the number of chapters. One of the chapters I had to add was a new chapter 2... I have 34 chapters. And another question... I don't know if anyone has asked. How important is the folder that holds the chapter. That is just plain curiousity. Inquiring minds want to know: Anyone want to want to share how you do a mass update of chapter numbers?